Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Imaginative Arts ideas by years and subjects

As with most of the posts, this is intended to be a growing post.  If you are positively sickened by the lack of resources you were hoping were on here, then please know that is part of your genius saying, "I could do better!" and you should!  Post your ideas in the reply, or let me know them at mary.vanguard@gmail.com. T-E-A-M: Together Everyone Achieves More, right? Or my adaptation: "I-E-P-T-I-F-I-A-H-T-E-A-M":  If Everyone Puts Their Ideas For Imaginative Arts Here Then Everyone Achieves More"...okay, the first one is more catchy :).

"Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers"

Ancient Times


Medieval Times


1500-1750's
Renaissance & Baroque Art.
Bach
Hayden
Handel
Taj Mahal (1639)
1st piano built in 1709!

1750-1900
 Impressionism
Edgar Degas: 
Renoir
Cézanne--still lifes post-impressionism
Van Gogh
Seurat: Pointillism
Mozart
Beethoven
Schubert
Mendelssohn
Chopin
Liszt
Wagner
Gounod
Franck
Bruckner

1900-present
 My Place in Art:Modern Art. 
Matisse: fauvism
Picasso-Cubism
Mondrian-Abstraction
Dali, Salvador, Surrealism
Pollock, Abstract expressionism
Warhol: Pop art

6 comments:

  1. Not sure if this is where you want this, but feel free to reorganize it! We've been looking at including short stories as part of this lens and here are a few that I found that I felt had merit. Some short stories are just weird!

    Scarlet Stockings by Louisa May Alcott
    The Most Dangerous Game by Connell
    The Minister's Veil by Hawthorne
    The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant
    The Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
    The Veldt by Ray Bradbury
    The Gift of the Magi by O'Henry
    The Mansion by Henry Van Dyke
    The Tell-Tale Heart by Poe
    The Sculptor's Funeral by Willa Cather
    The Revolt of Mother by Freeman
    The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benet
    The Highwayman by Noyes
    The Lottery by Jackson
    The Speckled Band by Doyle

    Some of these are darker in content, but since they were thought provoking, I have included them. Not saying that they would all be great for vanguard, but they certainly make you think. Anyway, you said to send stuff that is from our brainstorming, and so here they are!

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  2. Some resources our group is using:

    We will be going through the Artists in Stories of Great Artists by Olive Brown Horne with a few changes. We will also be using the Homebook of Great Paintings. Some months we will read about one painter in the first book and study 5 paintings of that artist(of their choosing) in the second book. Some months we will study one artist from the first book and the paintings of another in the second book.

    So the artists we'll be studying this year (1400-1850) are:
    Raphael
    Michael Angelo
    Sir Joshua Reynolds and Van Dyck
    Rembrandt
    Corot and Titan
    Landseer and Correggio
    Benjamin West (still looking for resources on him)

    We are using the Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers for our musicians. Last year we studied the first 7 in the book, so this year we will be studying the next 7 (one per month):

    Felix Medelssohn
    Frederic Chopin
    Franz Liszt
    Richard Wagner
    Charles Gounod
    Cesar Franck
    Anton Bruckner

    The imaginative literature we will be studying is:

    -Poetry (a youth is in charge of this so I'm not sure what type they'll have us do, but we'll do one different type per month)

    -Apprentice Books: The Last Battle (theme - God) by Lewis, Moccassin Trail (theme - liberty) by McGraw.

    -Journeyman Book (will be studied throughout the year: Pilgrim's Progress

    -Short Stories (on the months we don't have the apprentice book):
    Scarlett Stockings (Citizenship)
    The Veldt (Citizenship)
    The Necklace (Property)
    Tell Tale Heart (Property)
    The Mansion (Life and Pursuit of Happiness)
    The Enchanted Wood (Leadership)
    What Men Live By (Leadership or Society)
    Stargirl (Society)

    I hope that makes sense :-)

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    1. Here is a link for the "Stories of Great Artists" to read online: http://archive.org/stream/storiesgreatart00scobgoog#page/n43/mode/2up

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  3. As you're studying these people, check out Elbert Hubbard's "Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great." There are 14 volumes (including one on painters, one on artists, and one on musicians), all available for free. Here's a list you can refer to for who they include. http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/metabook?id=littlejourneys

    From those I've read, some are better than others. Can't remember which, but one seemed like all it was was a look at the actual home, while others are great biographies of the person.

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  4. Also, "Music Talks for Children" was a beautiful book to study. The Art/Lit week was always a harder one to prepare for because I was working on the newsletter and preparing for my lens all at the time time, but that book is one I want to study more. Angie was using it in journeyman Art, and we got some incredible lessons from it.

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    1. Here is a place to read this one online for free as well
      http://www.readcentral.com/book/Thomas-Tapper/Read-Music-Talks-with-Children-Online

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